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Look impressive, but 'GPS'? That'll be handy for google searches.
You can't expect some java developers to know about any technology which interacts with the real world can you? /sarcasm
Actually, I consider myself primarily a Java developer... and I wrote a pretty comprehensive GPS library in Java a while back (for using a raw GPS chip over a serial UART connection for embedded devices).
One of the things I despise about academia is the need (and sometimes the arrogance to) give every project/idea/framework, no matter its size or importance, some silly acronym.
This is a people thing, not an academia thing.
This really is an unfortunate naming collision.
Unfortunately, the link to the Green-Marl compiler "paper from CGO 2014" is broken. Anyone knows where to find this?
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Really, GPS is what you're going to call it? That is a bad idea for a bunch of reasons, mostly practical (GPS already means Global Positioning System to just about every American and search engine, etc.)
I agree, worst acronym name ever for a graphing system.
I'm surprised they do not reference GraphLab from Carnegie Mellon, http://graphlab.org/projects/index.html It's built for the same purpose and has been around for a number of years. The core is in C++ with python bindings. It has quite a few ready made applications built on top of it as well.
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Kind of interesting they didn't mention graphlab at all.
We took "GPS" out of the title to mitigate an impending bikeshed avalanche.